Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Ray recalls the ride of his life

                 From the Maitland Mercury report:
Ray Bride was the smallest and youngest passenger at three days old to fly in Nancy Bird’s Gypsy Moth aircraft in 1935. His next experience of flying in a Moth was 74 years later when he was invited to take to the skies in the observer’s seat for the opening of the Nancy Bird-Walton Memorial Tower at Luskintyre Airfield.
Full article by Rebecca Berry available at Maitland Mercury, 04 June, 2010.